Remap Your Keyboard

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Key mappings affect all users, so different users may wish to use different
maps. TradeKeys 2 lets you save your keyboard maps so you can switch among
different configurations easily (
Figure 2
).

Clicking the Save button launches the Save keyboard map dialog.
Enter the name you want for the file, then click the Save button or press
Enter. The Save keyboard map dialog defaults to the program's home folder
initially, but you can save a map in any folder you like. Once you do save a map
to a different folder, TradeKeys 2 will remember that location for subsequent
loads and saves. The resulting file will contain all mappings displayed in the
Mapped keys list, whether or not you have actually put them into effect.
You can also save an empty list if you want, creating a file that will restore
your entire keyboard to normal operation once you have loaded the file and
applied it.

To load a map from disk, use the Load button. Again, you can load a
file from any folder you like, and TradeKeys 2 remembers that location for
subsequent loads and saves. You can also load a file by either double-clicking
that file in Windows Explorer or launching a shortcut to that file from your
Desktop or Start menu. If TradeKeys 2 is not running, it will launch with
the specified file already loaded. If the utility is already running, it will
load the file just as if you had clicked the Load button and selected the
desired file manually.

Regardless of the method you use, loading a file causes TradeKeys 2 to
discard the current mappings from the Mapped keys list and replace them
with the ones loaded from the file. To put the new mappings into effect, you
must click the OK button. This allows you to review the contents of the
file before activating it. Although applying the mappings immediately may seem
more convenient (especially under Windows 9x, where a restart is not
required), TradeKeys 2 does not provide this feature, because it may be applied
maliciously.

TradeKeys Map files use a .tkm extension, and they are interchangeable
among systems, with only one limitation. Under Windows 2000 and XP, TradeKeys 2
can remap extended keys. It cannot do this under Windows 9x. Therefore,
if you load a file that was saved from Windows 2000 or XP onto a Win 9x
system, TradeKeys 2 will discard any mappings that your system does not support
and display a message to let you know that it did not load the entire file. This
will not affect the contents of the file itself, unless you use the Save
command to overwrite the original.

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